CCNY’s MFA Program in Creative Writing Presentsa Publishing Workshop with Yahdon Israel Senior Editor, Simon & Schuster and Guest Professor Craft as Brand: Authoring Your Career This workshop will help the emerging writer craft their career as a writer. Tuesday November 28th from 7:00 – 8:00 pm Rifkind Room NAC 6/316 Yahdon Israel is […]
Events
The CCNY MFA in Creative Writing Presents Chai & Chat Reading Series FA23 A Conversation with Carlos Aguasaco Poet, Professor and Director of the Americas Poetry Festival Moderated by Prof. Michelle Valladares Tuesday, November 14th5 – 7 pmRifkind Center, NAC 6/316 Sponsored by the Estate of the Kenneth Kowald Fund […]
CCNY’s MFA in Creative Writing Reading Series Fall 2023 presents: David Unger Novelist, Translator & Professor A Reading and Conversation to Celebrate the English Translation of his Book, In My Eyes, You Are Beautiful Thurs. Nov 9 2023s:oo-6:oo pmRifkind Center NAC 6/316 David Unger received Guatemala’s Miguel Angel Asturias National […]
CCNY’s MFA in Creative WritingReading Series Fall 2023 A Reading and Conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto — Guest Professor, Novelist and Memoirist Monday, October 16, 20235:00 – 7:00pmRifkind Center, NA 6/316 The MFA in Creative Writing at City College invites you to a reading and conversation with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, […]
Presented by the CCNY MFA in Creative Writing and Rifkind Center moderated by Guest Professor David Groff THURSDAY APRIL 27, 5:00-6:00PM RIFKIND CENTER NAC 6/316 Anjali Singh started her career in publishing in 1996 as a literary scout. Formerly Editorial Director at Other Press, she has also worked as an editor […]
Tues. Apr. 25, 6:00 – 7:30 PM Archives as Muse: A Harlem Storytelling Project created by CCNY’s MFA Program in Creative Writing / Multimedia Event directed and conceived by Karin Coonrad
Presented by The CCNY MFA in Creative Writing and The CCNY Department of Philosophy Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:00 – 5:15 PM The CCNY MFA in Creative Writing and the Department of Philosophy presents Chloe Cooper Jones author of Easy Beauty Thursday, March 30, 4:00-5:15PM, Rifkind Center (NAC 6/316) […]
Featuring the editors of ‘Feminists Reclaim Mentorship’ and other panelists Nancy K. Miller, Tahneer Oksman, Melissa Coss Aquino, Michelle Yasmine Valladares, Sharifa Hampton, and Angela Veronica Wong
The CCNY MFA in Creative Writing Presents Chai & Chat with Chris Dombrowski Author of The River You Touch Tuesday, February 28, 5:00 – 6:30pm, Rifkind Center (NAC 6/316)
The CCNY MFA in Creative Writing Presents Chloe Cooper Jones Discussion with the Author of Easy Beauty in Partnership with the CCNY Department of Philosophy Thursday March 30, 4 – 5:15 PM Rifkind Center NAC 6/316 From Writer to Author with David Groff Creating a Roadmap to Publication […]
Join us on November 10 from 5:00 – 6:00PM in the Rifkind Center (NAC 6/316) for a free workshop with Yahdon Israel, senior editor at Simon & Schuster, on what the book proposal is, why it matters, and how to master the form. Yahdon Israel is an educator, entrepreneur, editor, […]
For the second semester, students from the City College of New York’s MFA and MA program participated in a weekend artists residency at the Stephen & Betsy Corman Harriman Outdoor Center. As it was in the first semester, the retreat was designed to both offer our students an escape from […]
Abdoh will be discussing his latest novel "Out of Mesopotamia" with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.
Natera and her publisher Ballantine are also donating 50 copies of Natera's "Neruda on the Park" to CCNY students who attend the readinf
This fall, we’re excited to feature a full slate of in-depth readings and discussions with authors and journalists, and conversations on how to navigate the publishing industry and prepare to land your first book deal.
WRITERS ON IRAN FEAT. MIKHAL DEKEL Join Mikhal Dekel, Salar Abdoh and the CCNY MFA program to discuss Tehran Children, a historical memoir that the New York Times Book Review hailed as “Not simply another detail of the Holocaust but a matter of enduring existential, psychological and moral reflection.” MIKHAL […]
Join us this semester for conversation with the award-winning author Mikhal Dekel, and poet David Mills, along with workshops on how to successfully complete your MFA thesis, and sage wisdom from David Groff on how to transition from writer to author. WRITERS ON IRAN FEAT. MIKHAL DEKEL Join Mikhal Dekel, […]
The deadline to apply for the fall 2022 semester is fast approaching! Join Michelle Valladares, director of the CCNY MFA Program in Creative Writing, on Thursday, February 7, to answer any questions you might have about the program or the application process. Access the event via zoom using this link
Join us for the latest in our new Spotlight reading series engaging authors, writers and the public in the most pressing conversations of our time, through the lens of literature and the arts. Spotlight: Writers on Iran In less than two years, four faculty have published books focusing on Iran from […]
In recent years, the publishing landscape has undergone a fundamental shift in how books are sold, marketed and read. This contemporary landscape can seem like it’s constantly changing, but for the aspiring writer, one aspect of the publishing process remains as important as it ever was: the book proposal. Recently, […]
Acted by graduates from the Department of Theatre and Speech MONDAY, DECEMBER 10th, 2019 from 6:30 – 8:30 PM COMPTON GOETHALS HALL – Third Floor, Studio 318
TYEHIMBA JESS Poetry reading with Pulitzer Prize winner and Author of OLIO Co-Sponsored with the Rifkind Center TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30 From 6:00 – 8:00PM at SHEPARD HALL 95
Epic In The Ancient Near East And The Bible Edward L. Greenstein – Editor And Translator Of The Book Of Job
HASANTHIKA SIRISENA Fiction reading with prize winning Author of THE OTHER ONE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 6:30 – 8:00PM RIFKIND ROOM, NAC 6/316